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Robert Reich
TheNovemberFella ✊🏳️🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀@rbreich Truth
lemgandi@rbreich People from actual first-world countries are always puzzled and amazed by the US system. In most places filing your taxes means looking at a postcard and signing it.
The US tax prep industry is a massive dead-weight drag on the economy.
Bill Zaumen@lemgandi @rbreich It is actually worse than you would imagine. Besides the absurdly complicated federal stuff, most states do more or less the same thing, sometimes with subtly different rules, so you have to go though the mess twice, doubling the cost.
As I recall, Albert Einstein called the U.S tax system the hardest thing in the world to understand.
@lemgandi @rbreich To help pay my taxes this year, I used an open-source program I wrote named qrl. The stuff I got back from an accountant included a PDF file with a "how to pay" QR code. So I dragged the image into qrl, which then opened a browser to the link the QR code provided. qrl can ask before opening a link, so you can see the URL first, and can also just show the HTTP headers, including redirects. If redirects send you to "spies are us" before the final page, you'll know about it.
Serge 🔻
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Thomas Lee ✅ 
@rbreich they underpaid?
Joshua Kevins@rbreich this side of Uganda is not good at all no tax holidays at all
SpaceLifeFormIt is clear that Congress is not working.
Kevin Karhan@rbreich how is it even legal to paywall mandatory shit?
Bob 
toothpaste_sandwich@rbreich I think it is strange to post a screenshot of a post you made elsewhere, rather than just copy–pasting the text here.
There, I said it. Yes, I am very brave. I could be a fireman. Or a war hero, perhaps. But here I am, posting opinions on Mastodon instead.
der.hans@rbreich alt-text
screen capture of something Robert Reich posted elsewhere
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A tax season reminder that Intuit TurboTax lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing.
Trump then terminated the free IRS Direct File program established under Biden, just a ear after the tax prep giant gave his inauguration fund $1M.
Do you see how this works?
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